• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, entituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions
  • Other titles: Abweichender Titel: Naturall and artificiall conclusions
  • Contributor: Albertus Magnus, Saint [Other]; Cardano, Girolamo [Other]; Hill, Thomas [Other]; Wecker, Johann Jacob [Other]
  • imprint: Imprinted at London: by Iohn Charlevvood, for Abraham Kitson, 1584
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([63] p); ill
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Amusements Early works to 1800 ; Magic tricks Early works to 1800 ; Puzzles Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2167:3)
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Imperfect: cropped, with loss of print
    Signatures: A-D⁸
    Black letter
    Tail-piece; initials; title vignette (candle burning in a bottle)
    D₈ verso is blank
    STC (2nd ed.), 13480.7
    Hall, T.H. Old conjuring books, 147.5
    A compilation of translated material from a number of earlier writers, primarily Girolamo Cardano, but also including Mizauld, Bartholomew Anglicus, J.J. Wecker, and Albertus Magnus; the possibility exists that Hill originated some of the material himself. Cf. Hall, T.H. Old conjuring books, p. 41-42
    Reproduction of original in: University of Texas at Austin. Library
    First extant edition 1581, but evidence exists indicating editions in 1567 and 1568. Cf. Hall, p. 35-40
  • Description: eebo-0179